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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Crating and Ending

The first picture just shows you what a 200 cubic foot crate looks like on the inside.

The second is us fully packed after 7 hours of figuring how it all fits.

The third is what it looks like before it is caulked, sealed, stenciled, and put on a boat.

The guys at Central Transportation Systems in San Antonio were great! They've helped lots of missionaries before, and it was evident they were experts at what they were doing. Here's hoping the boat arrives...

We haven't seen pictures of our house yet, but I've been told it's fixed up, painted, and ready to go. If the house isn't big enough to hold our stuff, I guess we can have a "garage sale" in Africa.

We also found out that we will not be going to our home to drop off our bags before going to Kenya for a home school conference. They will be left some place "safe" in the capital of Kampala while we make the trip.

That means, when we get to Africa, we will need to go through 13 of our 15 bags to find what we need to take to Kenya. We only packed little carry-ons for a couple of nights in Kampala. We would go through our bags now, but they are weighed and packed to the pound, and it would take A LOT of shifting and re-organizing to do it here.

I also just found out, we will be in Nairobi longer than we thought. We won't arrive in our town of Arua or at our new home until January 20th, so it will be awhile before I have pictures for you.

I read someone's blog who summarized their year in a series of numbers. I don't have the year down, but here are some stats:

Happy new year Kathryn!Welcome to Kampala, Uganda and trust you will have a wonderful time here. For all information you may require before or during your stay, please visit - http://www.welcometokampala.com

HI EAST AFRICAN FRIEND --- we ushered in the new year at the airport waiting on our 6 bags to arrive and celebrated when they all got here !!! we just finished a fresh pineapple from the field and are adjusting well. Now that the crating is done - - - enjoy the journey as the adventure continues ---- Thinking about ya'll as you travel and adjust !

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Quotes from my older three from years' past

Mom to Caleb, "Daddy popped that spider like he pops you, Caleb." Caleb then says, "There's a lot more to it than that." "What?" "First, he has to talk to me before I get popped, and I didn't hear him talk to the spider."

Caleb to Karis: "Hey, why don’t we pretend we are where the Statue of Liberty is…like China."

Caleb asked if he could wear Karis’ pink watch. I said sure. He was SO excited. Doug had told him in the kitchen that the watch was on military time, so he came to me to “fix” it.” I told him that was the reason Karis didn’t want it anymore. I said, “Caleb you could have it. It’s on military time. That’s the way the army keeps time, and you’re in the army, right?” He said, “Cool! I can tell when the army starts! I actually think it’s starting right now!”

Caleb telling his sisters what came in a box in the mail, over the phone, "We got water balloons...I'll spell it ...WA-DER BA-LLOONS...and we got 'Clouds with Meatballs,' 'Beberly Hills Chihuahua' about the dog, and 'Stole Story 3.'"

Caleb has heard me talk about my friend in Arua named Pasca, then we were trying to teach him the Spock sign with the pinky/ring finger together and pointer/middle finger together. Anyway, somewhere he got it confused, and he now says, "Live long and Pasca."

On November SEVENTEENTH: Karis said, "Is it November already? It was JUST April."

Knock-knock. Who's there? Penguin. Penguin who? I'm divin' in the water. - Karis, who has no concept of how a knock-knock joke is supposed to go. She cracks me up!

I asked Caleb while we were coloring a page together, "Are you trying to stay in the lines?" He said, "I keep trying, but they keep letting me out."

Caleb came running to me on Wednesday after church and said, "Mommy, I really want to kiss you." I said, "Come on!" XX "I love it, Caleb." "I love it too, Mommy."

We were doing a family devotional when Doug asked, "What does it mean to imitate?" Kylie said, "To bug you." Doug was quick on his feet with, "No. That's "irritate"."

Caleb wanted Daddy juice (chocolate milk) one morning (which Doug usually makes for them) and I said, "I'll make you Daddy Juice." He said, "But I won't feel the 'daddy'."

"I don't know why some people celebrate Easter with the Easter bunny. The real story is better." - Kylie (Amen, sister!)

"The Easter bunny is fake-believe." - Karis

Coming home last night, Caleb said, "We need to find an armadillo so we can hit it."

"I can run as fast as a cheetah-dah." - Caleb

"Mmm! This is good cantaloupe. Did Daddy kill this?" (I'm guessing Caleb confused his snack with the antelope we've been showing him pictures of on the African savannah.)

My dad (Doc) was helping Caleb on the potty. When Caleb couldn't get anything to come out, he said, "It's not working. I think it's broken."

We were studying icicles today, and Karis said, "Yes, they go around and around." I said, "What does?" "You know. The water thing that goes around and around that we learned about?" "Oh! The water cycle? Well, this is a little different."

Karis: "Mom, there is no "U" in the alphabet." Mom: "Yes, there is, honey, S, T, U, V." Karis: "I didn't know that. So it comes before V?"

"My favorite action hero is Skue Likewalker." - Caleb

"Mom, will you dance with me?" - my sweet 3 yr old boy

"Mom, I know my verse for tonight, 'I am the resolection and the lights.'" - Karis

Tonight, along with 17 deer we saw one "ky dotie" - Caleb's version of coyote

Karis crawled in bed with Doug to snuggle, and she said, "Oh! you are so warm. I'm stealing all your heat and giving you all my cold."

"O Holy Night" came on the radio, and I was telling the kids that it was a Christmas song. I said, "See, they just said, 'This is the night of the dear Savior's birth,'" and Caleb said without missing a beat, "Where's the deer?"

I have a password to my castle. Come here and let me secret it to you. - Karis

Dad shouldn't be 37. He is so big; it seems like he should be 55 or something. - Kylie

I still don't like black and white okra. - Karis (I guess that's what she hears when I say, "blackened okra."

Caleb was in the pool touching Doug's chest hair and said, "What dis?" Dad said, "Hair." Then he started looking up and down b/w Doug's head and chest and grabbing his own hair. Then Caleb said, "Why that hair not there?" (pointing to the top of Doug's head)